What really pisses me off right now with COVID is this.
We have known to quaruntine infected areas for centuries. The word quaruntine comes from '40 days' in Italian which is how long ships and sailors would stay abord vessels during the plague to stop the spread. It's a 17th century term.
We have known about the germ theory of disease in more or less its current form for just shy of 200 years.
We had an influenza pandemic that generated a huge wealth of information about how such things spread and are contained just over a hundred years ago.
We've seen countless pandemics and epidemics of lesser severity since then which again have given us loads of case studies regarding how best to go about containing them and minimizing loss of life.
We had several very good examples of how to tackle this specific pandemic from primarily south east Asian countries.
So yeah, every lying, conniving sack of shit politician acting as if this is a never seen before uniquely complex scientific and social problem and every toadying, arselicking media pundit who reinforces this great lie, this myth that our governments simply could not possibly know what to do or what would happen can catch the damn thing and we'll just stick them on a plague island like they did back in the middle ages.
That's exactly how the DPRK was able to get away with zero deaths from COVID despite having limited material resources. :juche-boi: The solution was simple: close the border and keep everyone at home. It required only solidarity and organization.
Americans can't go there because the US government banned it's citizens from travelling there. DPRK actually let's us come, it's our government that doesn't. Same with Cuba
Honestly even accounting for relatively lower travel in and out the country, we are doing worse than the government held up in the public eye as batshit insane, evil and incompetent.
What really pisses me off right now with COVID is this.
We have known to quaruntine infected areas for centuries. The word quaruntine comes from '40 days' in Italian which is how long ships and sailors would stay abord vessels during the plague to stop the spread. It's a 17th century term.
We have known about the germ theory of disease in more or less its current form for just shy of 200 years.
We had an influenza pandemic that generated a huge wealth of information about how such things spread and are contained just over a hundred years ago.
We've seen countless pandemics and epidemics of lesser severity since then which again have given us loads of case studies regarding how best to go about containing them and minimizing loss of life.
We had several very good examples of how to tackle this specific pandemic from primarily south east Asian countries.
So yeah, every lying, conniving sack of shit politician acting as if this is a never seen before uniquely complex scientific and social problem and every toadying, arselicking media pundit who reinforces this great lie, this myth that our governments simply could not possibly know what to do or what would happen can catch the damn thing and we'll just stick them on a plague island like they did back in the middle ages.
That's exactly how the DPRK was able to get away with zero deaths from COVID despite having limited material resources. :juche-boi: The solution was simple: close the border and keep everyone at home. It required only solidarity and organization.
And shooting morons who won't comply
That RFA story? lol. Do you believe they all wear the same haircut too?
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That's pretty easy when the restrictions to get in and out of the country are already draconian.
I mean, it was definitely easier than closing off a country with as much international travel as Italy, but the country is not as isolated as the propaganda has you believe. There is no concept of a border [between the DPRK and China]. People come and go as they please.
Of course the DMZ is a different story.
lmao need to sign in to age verify on that vid
Yeah YouTube sucks.
lol what about the other 189 countries?
Americans can't go there because the US government banned it's citizens from travelling there. DPRK actually let's us come, it's our government that doesn't. Same with Cuba
I swear, the mindless propaganda on this site...
You need a passport. I don't know how difficult they are to obtain, but the woman in that video was a dressmaker and she had a DPRK passport.
Honestly even accounting for relatively lower travel in and out the country, we are doing worse than the government held up in the public eye as batshit insane, evil and incompetent.
but the line!! :stonks-down:
Capitalism has never seen anything like it